Mara

gengwall,
😀

I appreciate your honesty.

I think one of the biggest sins we women have to grapple with is fear.
The other ladies can either agree or disagree. And they might come up with the real biggest sin that we face that I’m not thinking of.
But, off the top of my head, I think it is fear.

Fear of so many things. Being abandoned. Being abused. Being unloved.
And this sin also makes us very tempted to toe the line of gender roles. Without the perfect love of Jesus to cast out fear, we will more likely cave to the pressure. Without Paul assuring us that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love, power, and a sound mind, we have no reason not to fear and will be tempted to trust in men and their words on order and structure and their promises that if we would just follow this order and structure (that they are just sure that God has laid out) that we will be loved, accepted, and protected.

It is a battle for us all.